Blue Literature - General Preview

Aoi Bungaku (Blue Literature) is my most anticipated series this season! I love literature and highly interested in popular and bestselling classics. It's refreshing to see that we get to have an anime that will focus on deep stories rather than the stereotypes and the generic stuff. (Not to mention it's blue *favorite color* Hehe!)

Here are so far the general information I have gathered regarding this very interesting series!

The Blue Literature Series is a television anime with 12 episodes based on six Japanese ltierary classics written by distinguished authors particularly Ango Sakaguchi, Dazai Ozamu, Natsume Soseki, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Famous Japanese manga artists are involved with the character designs in this project, namely Takeshi Obata (mangaka of Death Note , Tite Kubo (mangaka of Bleach ), and Takeshi Konomi (mangaka of Prince of Tennis ).

It will premiere today, October 10, 2009 on 25:50 - 26:20 am. It's a production of MadHouse and it will be broadcasted in NTV!

Episodes and Staff List:

(1) No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku)
Original Creator: Osamu Dazai
Original Character Design: Takeshi Obata
Director: Morio Asaka
Script: Satoshi Suzuki
Character Design: Masanori Shino
Cast: Masato Sakai, Wataru Takagi, Romi Paku, Aya Hisakawa, Mamiko Noto, Atsuko Tanaka, others
No. of Episodes: 4


(2) In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita)
Original Creator: Ango Sakaguchi
Original Character Design: Tite Kubo
Director: Tetsuro Araki
Script: Ken Iizuka
Character Design: Kunio Katsuki
No. of Episodes: 2


(3) The Heart of Things (Kokoro)
Original Creator: Soseki Natsume
Original Character Design: Takeshi Obata
Director, Character Design: Shigeyuki Miya
Script: Mika Abe
No. of Episodes: 2


(4) Run, Melos! (Hashire Melos!)
Original Creator: Osamu Dazai
Original Character Design: Takeshi Konomi
Director: Ryosuke Nakamura
Script: Sumino Kawashima
Character Design: Mieko Hosoi
No. of Episodes: 2


(5) The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito)
Original Creator: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Original Character Design: Tite Kubo
Director: Atsuko Ishizuka
Script: Yūji Kobayashi, Atsuko Ishizuka
Character Design: Yoshinori Kanemori
No. of Episodes: 1


(6) Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen)
Original Creator: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Original Character Design: Tite Kubo
Director: Atsuko Ishizuka
Script: Yūji Kobayashi, Atsuko Ishizuka
Character Design: Yoshinori Kanemori
No. of Episodes: 1

I look forward to seeing it very soon! I have high expectations from this! Hopefully, it won't disappoint. I trust MadHouse on this, Himitsu Revelation and Death Note have been really good~

After this will be an arc preview post~

Sources:
~ Anime News Network
~ Aoi Bungaku Official Site